In August 1813, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia. Rebels killed at least 50 white slaveowners.
Turner’s and the other rebels’ justification was that they were morally entitled to their liberty, and those who
kept it from them were morally responsible for the grievous wrong of enslaving them. (This raises an important
question: Was the killing a form of punishment? or a means to their liberty?) At one point in his account of the
events of the uprising, Turner says he asked his fellow slave how he was doing, and the friend replied that “his
life was worth no more than others, and his liberty as dear to him.” Turner then “asked him if he thought to
obtain it? He said he would, or loose his life.”
WEBSITES.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner%27s_slave_rebellion
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/02/nat-turners-insurrection/308791/
https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/turner/turner.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner%27s_slave_rebellion#Nat_Turner
THE QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO ANSWER ARE:
1. Was Nat Turner’s rebellion morally permissible?
2.What might a deontologist say?
3.What might a consequentialist say?
4. Who’s right?
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